Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Sacrifice of the Ocassas Religion (II)
Everyone understands the principle of striking while the iron is hot, and seeing that the crowd is excited, the high-ranking believers of the Orcasas Sect immediately took these low-level believers into the cave temple to worship the statue of the god Ocasas.
Of course, the panda followed inside, and entered the cave, only to see that it was much more spacious than in the game. Although the cave was dimly lit, he could still see his surroundings clearly with his night vision. After careful observation for a while, I saw that there were traces of artificial excavation on the walls and on the top of the head. The traces were like water waves, progressing layer by layer, and they were the scene left behind after the rock was turned into mud and transported away by magic.
Seeing this scene, he couldn't help frowning, and he was a little more vigilant about the strength of this Okasas Sect.
Turning rocks into mud isn't a very advanced spell. There are several spell schools that have spells that do this, but there are slight differences. But no matter what spell school the caster came from, it was an astonishing task to dig such a huge cave in the mountain—according to his observations, the "water waves" on the walls began to extend from a height of about one meter six or seven to at least five or six meters high. And this cave is also very long, and they have walked for about two or three minutes until they finally see the end of it.
The cave is about three meters wide and at least three hundred to three hundred and fifty meters long...... Even according to a conservative estimate of 300 meters long, 3 meters wide, and 5 meters high, the volume of this cave is 4,500 cubic meters. Assuming that it is excavated manually from a height of two meters to the top, then the total amount of the project is 2,700 cubic meters.
There are also many people who can use this spell among the traversers, and in the previous construction work of Tara Khan, the "Lord Earl" once invited the traversers to help them use spells to cut rocks. At that time, Ilundian, who was born as an engineer, once made a statistic that a level 30 or so traverser (that is, himself) could probably dig nearly 80 cubic meters of stone when he used up all his mana, while the local mage of about 20 levels in Tarakhan could only dig less than 30 cubic meters of stone after exhausting all his mana every day. In the end, he came up with a list, Panda didn't remember the contents of this list, only remembered that the final conclusion was that the traverser could be regarded as a similar mage who had increased fifteen levels in terms of spell casting effect - there was no way to calculate the total amount of mana, and the stamina and mana recovery speed of the traverser were much, much higher than ordinary people.
Of course, there could be no traverser under Aethera's men, and the amount of mana needed to complete the total amount of 2,700 cubic meters of work was a staggering amount - under normal circumstances, mages would not run out of mana, because the recovery rate of mana was very slow. Under good diet and rest conditions, a mage of about level forty needs to rest for about three days before he can recover all his mana.
(I wonder how much time Aethra spent preparing for this cave...... Maybe a year or two...... )
The panda guessed, walked through the group, and came to the bottom of the cave.
At the base of the cave is a large hemispherical square with a huge bonfire lit on it, which is illuminated by raging flames, as well as the huge statue at the end of the square.
Seeing this statue, the panda couldn't help but feel a thrill in his heart.
It's too big!
The statue is conservatively estimated to be twenty meters tall, and looks like a monster with a human body, but with an octopus head and a number of tentacles hanging from its head, it does not look like it is standing straight, it seems to be a little tired, and it is resting against the stone wall. Because the octopus has no facial features on its head, and it can't see its expression, it can only guess.
On the top of the statue's head, a circle of golden-red light spreads out, like a wheel of light above the head of the statue of the god and Buddha, full of divine feeling. It's just that if a gem expert is here, he will be able to see how this light looks like the color of "star core fragments".
That's because on top of the statue's head, there is a huge "Star Core Fragment" - Star Heart.
Seeing this statue, the low-level believers let out an amazement, their eyes were completely attracted by it, and they couldn't turn away for a second.
The panda quickly turned his gaze around to observe the situation in the square.
There were already about forty followers of the Ocassas sect in the square, six of whom were dressed in gray-yellow clothes and were high-level cultists, and the rest were gray-blue and middle-level cultists. The group formed an arc and surrounded the woman in the middle, the leader of the Ocasas sect, Athera.
Athera looked about thirty-five or sixteen, her appearance was somewhat senile, and her face had noticeable wrinkles. She's not pretty, and she doesn't have any intention of spoiling her face. She had several deep and shallow scars on her face, the most serious of which crossed her left eye, nearly turning her into a one-eyed dragon...... Maybe she was actually blind in one eye, but she was later cured by a spell.
She was dressed in crimson clothes, and the eyes on her clothes sparkled in the light of the fire, which was obviously quite a high-class robe. She didn't hold a wand like a normal mage, but wore a sword around her waist and looked quite athletic.
Panda remembers that in the game, this cult leader is a very high-level "cultist", who cultivates both law and martial arts. In terms of melee combat, there are a series of skills such as charging, interrupting, penetrating, and shouting, and the most dangerous is the "Star Rain Sword", which can stab more than a dozen swords in an instant, and as soon as you see the pattern of the nebula above her head in the game, all melee battles must be quickly retreated, leaving only the meat shield in front of you. In terms of spells, she is good at fire and lightning spells, but there are no auxiliary spells, all of them are attack output.
According to the game's setting, when her blood loss reaches 50%, there will be a wave of fire and rain to wash the floor. There are no dead ends in all directions, and you can only resist hard. Fortunately, there is a fire immunity potion in the game, and although it only works for twenty seconds, it is enough.
When she has 30% of her health left, there will be a super powerful chain of lightning, and if the lightning ball hits only one person, the blood damage will be as high as hundreds of millions. At this time, everyone needs to get closer, so that the lightning ball turns into a chain of lightning and attacks everyone, and the damage will be rapidly reduced to about a little more than a thousand per person.
When her health is still in the last ten percent, electricity and fire will wrap around her sword, and at this time, her melee attacks will have a 10 percent chance of instant death - this skill is quite a pit, I don't know how many teams have fallen under this damn chance in resignation, until someone found out that they found a church to pray and donate money in advance, and after the "divine grace" status was hung on the body, the instant death effect could not be triggered, and this dungeon had a stable strategy to pass the level.
By the way, it was the people from another guild who had always had a bad relationship with "Reckless Piercing the Earth" who discovered this method, and at that time they were also sarcastic about "Reckless Piercing the Earth" in the guide, saying that "playing games is also a matter of using your brains...... What? You only have muscles left in your brain? Then you go reckless, die a few more times, get rid of the useless muscles, maybe you can be a little smarter."
A large-scale guild war broke out over this, and the two powerful guilds fought each other for almost two months in a row, declaring war on each other every weekend......
Thinking of these past events, the panda couldn't help but smile slightly. Fortunately, he has lowered his head at the moment, but he doesn't have to worry about being discovered.
He followed this group of low-level disciples with longing and expectation on their faces, and approached the idol under the leadership of the middle-level disciples, ranking behind the middle-level disciples.
Then, led by the leader Athera, all the worshippers knelt down and bowed to the idol of Ocasas, praying sincerely.
As they prayed, the bonfire in the center of the square slowly turned from red to green, and the light of the forest filled the square, but the green light did not make people feel creepy, but full of warmth.
It's like hot water at just the right temperature, so you can't help but immerse yourself in it and forget about anything......